From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Subject: Re: Why not BSD-FFS? Was: [Q] newextfs Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 06:44:13 GMT
In article <C3EIH7.16o@servalan.servalan.com> rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com (Richard Todd) writes:
>hoenig@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Joachim Hoenig) writes:
>
>>I have not followed up on the threads about various filesystems and
>>their problems for very long, yet there is one thing on which I would
>>like to find enlightenment: I cannot think of any reason why someone
>>would not want to use the BSD ufs filesystem. It has been around for a
>>long time, and his has been proven to be fast and reliable. Are there
>>any reasons against porting this filesystem to Linux? Why this mess of
>>thousands of ???fs filesytems?
>
>Uh, mebbe because the guys who put out the BSD fs code are currently being
>sued by USL and the legal status of the entire BSD Net/2 release is in
>doubt?
>
>Just an inspired guess.
Not really. A rather misleading and bogus guess. Where do you think the
Linux TCP code came from. out of thin air? Who wrote the FFS isn't, and
to my knowledge hasn't ever been, at issue in the USL<->BSDI lawsuit. By
the way, the FFS was not written by any employee of BSDI, now or then.
BSDI didn't even exist then.
-- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM"I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons." -- Leonard Cohen